Big Tech: The Ultimate Googler Is Yahoo's Ideal CEO — Marissa Mayer begins her new job as Yahoo's CEO today. Photo: marcusnelson — It was already 10:30 at night, after a very long day that had begun at the Great Wall of China. A party of about 25 people had just finished a long meal …

Why Marissa Mayer may not be a good fit for Yahoo — In a bombshell announcement that sent shock waves through the entire technology sector, former Google executive Marissa Mayer has become the new chief executive officer of Yahoo:the fifth CEO the faded web giant has had in five years.

PayPal Acquires card.io — I'm excited to announce that PayPal has acquired card.io, a San Francisco-based company that provides technology for developers to capture credit card information by using the camera on a smartphone. — We first met with the team at card.io when we were working …

Designing the Windows 8 touch keyboard … When we began planning how touch and new types of PCs might work on Windows 8, we recognized the need to provide an effective method for text entry on tablets and other touch screen PCs. Since Windows XP SP1, which had Tablet PC features built in …